The Windows Bad Neighbor vulnerability explained — and how to protect your network
In October 2020, Microsoft patched a set of vulnerabilities that included critical networking bugs CVE-2020-16898 and CVE-2020-16899. Known as “Bad Neighbor” or “Ping of Death Redux,” these flaws lurk in the TCP/IP networking implementation in Windows in how incoming ICMPv6 packets are handled under certain conditions. Both CVE-2020-16898 and CVE-2020-16899 represent the Bad Neighbor vulnerability,…